Chronic Pain- Daily chat drop in thread #2 All welcome

[Akire]

Hi all well we filled up the last one and now we have our newish chronic pain boards.

This thread is for anyone who has days , weeks, months at time when get chronic pain flair or lives in pain constantly. There are so many conditions that have pain and often limited understand of how it feels to be living through it. All welcome jump in and feel supported

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[quote Akire]@sweetkitty that sounds totally rubbish, I understand about camels back hardly enough cope with what day brings and nothing spare. Hugs

Hi @Deolow you are very welcome. Migraines are the pits. Are you on long term medication for it? I know friends can take some preventive to ward off an attack but only so much every month.

I find TENS on head (only one patch mind!) helps with the pain, I get far less migraines these days but when I wake 3am it helps gives me some relief. Do you have a lot support? Hard when kids are tiny and can’t close eyes for few minutes.[/quote]
Right now I think I am overusing Rizatriptan.. My neurologist suggested we try botox, she said with my migraines being so frequent, I will be a good participant for this.. I don't always have the greatest support when a migraine hits as my husband works and my family is quite far away, sometimes it feels like me against the world, it's honestly extremely hard sometimes... so happy that you migraines are less these days.. 😊😊

@sweetkitty

Hi *@Deolow* I have had chronic migraines since I was a child too, I take topiramate as a preventer and sumatriptan if I feel one coming on. They don’t always work but do help. I would ask your GP to refer you to a migraine specialist. I feel for you having to deal them and a young toddler too. Nowadays I can just take myself off to bed when they happen.

Right now I am using Rizatriptan.. I visited a neurologist about two weeks ago, my medication options are a bit limited as I still breastfeed..she prescribed calcium channel blockers, which didn't really help.. she then suggested botox.. I am keeping my fingers crossed that this might make some difference for me.. by the way, sorry to hear you have also been suffering for so long 😢

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